page_title: Tully, Queensland
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tully, Queensland / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Township of Tully in North Queensland. The first settlement near the present town of Tully was originally called Banyan which was first settled in the 1900s. After the sugar mill and the North Coast railway were built in 1925, a new town called Tully was surveyed. It took its name from nearby Tully River, named in the 1870s after Surveyor William Alcock Tully.
context_page_description: Tully is a town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is adjacent to the Bruce Highway, approximately 140 kilometres south of Cairns by road and 210 kilometres north of Townsville. At the 2016 census, the population was 2,390.
  The Tully River was named after Surveyor-General William Alcock Tully in the 1870s. The town of Tully was named after the river when it was surveyed during the erection of the sugar mill in 1924. During the previous decade, a settlement known as Banyan had grown up on the other side of Banyan Creek.
  Tully is one of the larger towns of the Cassowary Coast Region. The economic base of the region is agriculture: sugar cane and bananas are the dominant crops. The sugar cane grown at the many farms in the district is processed locally at the Tully Sugar Mill, and the raw sugar produced is shipped elsewhere for further refining.
context_section_description: Dyirbal (also known as Djirbal) is a language of Far North Queensland, particularly the area around Tully and Tully River Catchment extending to the Atherton Tablelands. The Dyirbal language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of Cassowary Coast Regional Council and Tablelands Regional Council.
  The Tully River area was slowly settled once Cardwell, to the south, was established. The river was renamed in 1872 in honour of William Alcock Tully, then under-secretary for public lands and chief commissioner of crown lands in Queensland. The first settlers were the nephews of James Tyson, who  raised beef cattle. It was not until the government constructed a sugar mill in 1925 that the town began to develop.
  Tully was originally within the Cardwell Division, which became the Shire of Cardwell in 1903. The first headquarters for the division/shire were in older town of Cardwell. In 1929, the decision was taken to relocate the shire council's headquarters to the newer but more populous town of Tully. The first council meeting held in Tully was on 27 June 1929. A new shire chambers was built in 1930 on the south-east corner of Bryant and Morris Streets.
  Tully remained the administrative centre for the Shire of Cardwell, until the shire was amalgamated into the Cassowary Coast Region in 2008. The regional council has its headquarters in Innisfail.
  In March 2015, a farm at Tully tested positive for the soil-borne Panama disease.  Follow-up testing confirmed the results.  One of the strains of the disease affects all types of bananas and has previously only been detected in the Northern Territory.  Harvesting continued on the property with strict protocols allowing the farm to continue to operate and distribute product without posing a threat.
  At the 2011 census, Tully had a population of 2,436, and at the 2016 census, the population was 2,390.
  In 2019, Tully became the inaugural winner of a Loud Shirt Day competition to find Queensland's Loudest Town. Inspired by a local story, and facing strong competition from other regional Queensland towns, members of the community rallied together to raise $13,410 to support services provided to young people with hearing loss.
caption: Township of Tully in 1927
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